Marks distribution: Total marks – 300
| Category |
Details |
Marks |
Total Marks |
| Written |
MCQ (50% Multiple True and False (MTF) + 50% Single Best Answer (SBA)) |
20 |
100 |
| 25% Structured Essay Question & 75% Short Answer Question |
70 |
| Formative Assessment (FA) |
10 |
| SOE |
Structured Oral Examination |
100 |
100 |
| Practical |
Conventional Practical / OSPE, RFST including Survey Report, Study Tour Report, and Report on Day Visit |
100 |
100 |
| Grand Total |
300 |
Related Equipment
Weighing machine, Sakip’s tape/Measuring tape, Growth chart, Specimen and model, Posters and diagrams, Laboratory equipment (to be procured)
Concept of Public Health, Community Medicine, Health and Disease
Core
- Concept of Public Health and Community Medicine
- Concept of Health and Disease
- Common Health and Social Problems
- Health Team Concept
- Changing Concepts of Public Health and Health
- Natural history of disease
- Indicators and Determinants of Health
- Prevention and Intervention of Diseases
- Characteristics of Ideal Health Care
Behavioral Science
Core
Concept of
- Behavior
- Behavioral science
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Society, Family, Culture
- Motive and Motivation
- Leadership personality and IQ
- perception, cognition, learning, motivation, emotion, attitude
Health Communication & Health Education
Core
Health Communications
- Definition of communication
- Classification of communication
- Functions of communication
- Elements of communication
- Barriers of communication
- Media and methods of communication
Health Education
- Definition of health education
- Objectives
- Contents
- Principles
- Approaches
- Stages of adoption of a new idea
Medical Entomology
- Classification of Arthropods of medical importance
- Lifecycle of mosquito, sand fly
- Arthropod-borne diseases
- Principles of Vector/Arthropod control measures
- Insecticides
Research Methodology and Biostatistics
- definition of research
- importance of research
- types of research design
- development and stapes of the research protocol
- formulation of research objectives general and specific
- perpetration of the research questionnaire
- different methods of data collection
- definition and difference of population and sample
- calculation of sample size
- types of sampling
- preparation of report writing
Biostatistics
- Introduction to Bio-statistics
- Uses of Bio-statistics
- Vital statistics
- Data and Variable
- Methods and Tools of data collection
- Interpretation of data
- Analysis and Presentation of data
- Measures of central tendency
- Measures of dispersion
- Normal distribution curve
- Health economics
Environment & Health
- Environment and its components
- Climate change and global warming
Water
- Safe and wholesome water
- Sources, uses, and requirements of water
- Water impurities
- Principles and methods of purification of water
- Water quality standards for drinking water Water borne diseases
Air and ventilation
- Composition of air
- Air pollutants and their sources
- Indicators of air pollution
- Effects of air pollution on health
- Methods of prevention and control of air pollution
- Ventilation
- Climate change and greenhouse effect
Light
- Criteria of good lighting
- Measurements of light
- Effect of improper lighting on health
Noise
- Sources and properties of noise
- Acceptable noise levels
- Effects of noise exposure
- Control measures of noise
Radiation
- Sources and types of radiation
- Effects of radiation on health
- Measures of radiation protection
Housing
- Criteria of healthful housing
- Housing standards
- Effects of poor housing
Disposal of solid waste
- Solid waste and its sources
- Methods of disposal and medical biotechnology
- Health hazards of solid wastes
Excreta disposal
- Methods of excreta disposal
- Sanitation barrier
- Diseases borne by human excreta
Immunity, Immunization
Core
- Immunization
- Immunizing agents
- Immunization schedule (EPI schedule)
- Adverse Events Following Immunization
- Herd immunity
- EPI and NID
- Cold chain
- Left out and drop out
Public Health Nutrition
- Types of foods and their sources
- Balanced diet
- Protein Energy Malnutrition (PEM)
- Impotent Vitamins and their deficiency diseases
- deficiency disorder of Important Minerals and trace elements
- Assessment of nutritional status
- Calorie requirements of different groups
- Foodborne, milk-borne diseases, and food toxins
- Pasteurization
- Food adulteration, additives, and fortification
- Humanization of cow’s milk
Principles of Epidemiology
- Classification of epidemiological studies
- Description of descriptive and analytical studies Characteristics of
- Experimental studies Different between cross-sectional and longitudinal; cohort and case-control studies
- Steps of investigations of an epidemic outbreak
- Definition, classification, types and uses of screening specificity Sensitivity, validity, reliability
- Source and reservoir
- Modes of transmission of diseases
- interruption of modes of disease transmission
- Criteria of a susceptible host
- Definition and explanation of community diagnosis and community treatment
Epidemiology of Communicable and non-communicable Diseases (NCDs)
Core
- Definition and difference between CD and NCD
Epidemiology and Prevention of
- EPI diseases
- Diarrheal diseases and Enteric fever
- Malaria, Kala-azar, Filaria, Helminthiasis
- TB and Leprosy
- Viral hepatitis, Dengue, ARI, SARS (COVID-19), Bird flu, Rabies, Yellow fever
- AST STDs
- Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases
Epidemiology and Prevention of common non-communicable diseases
- Hypertension, IHD
- CVD (Stroke)
- Rheumatic fever and RHD
- Cancer
- Diabetes
- Obesity
- Arsenic
MCH-FP & Demography
MCH
- IMR, MMR
- High-risk mothers and at-risk child
- Care of under-5 children, LBW
- Antenatal, intranasal, and postnatal care, advice, and investigations
- Concept, mention the recommended feeding practices in IYCF
- Advantages and contraindications of BF
- Disadvantages of formula feeding
- Importance of colostrum
- What is Complementary Feeding (CF) and its importance
- Domiciliary and institutional delivery
- EMONC: Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care
Family planning
- Concept of family planning
- Aims and objectives of family planning
- Contraceptive methods (OCP, ECP)
- MR with use of medication (MRM) and difference with emergency contraceptive
pills · PPFP and post-abortion /MR/MRM family planning
- LAM-lactational amenorrhea method
- Eligible and target couples, safe period
- CPR, TFR, unmet need discontinuation rate
- MCH-based family planning
Demography
- Definition of demography
- Demographic processes
- Demographic transition and indices
- Population pyramid
- Census
- Fertility and its influencing factors
School Health Services
Core
- Objectives of School Health Service
- Aspects/components of school health service
- The task of the school health medical officer
- Common Health problems of school children
- School health emergencies
- School health clinic
- Helpful school health environment
- Different types of school desks and their importance
Occupational Health
- Occupational health and its objectives
- Occupational environment
- Occupational health hazards
- Principles of prevention of occupational diseases
- Employees’ benefits
Health For All (HFA), Primary Health Care (PHC), Universal Health Coverage (UHC) & MDG, SDG
- Definition: HFA and PHC, UHC
- Principles and components of PHC
- Health-related MDG and SDG
- Components of ESP
- Name and Activities of important existing national health programs
- Organizational structure for the delivery of PHC
- Goal and indicators of HFA by the year 2000 AD
- Levels of health care service delivery
- Concept, purpose and scope, evolution and diseases under IHR-2005
- Important National organizations
- Important International health organizations: WHO, UNICEF, RED CRESCENT, ICCDRB, CARE, etc.
